tchatter
French, verb/tʃa.te/
tchatter is a French verb meaning “to chat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de chater”.
What does tchatter mean in English?
verb
- 1
to chat
- 2
to chat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante de chater.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tchatter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tchattant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tchatté participle past
- tchatte first-person indicative present
- tchattes indicative present second-person
- tchattons first-person indicative plural
- tchattez indicative plural present
- tchattent indicative plural present
- tchattais first-person imperfect indicative
- tchattait imperfect indicative singular
- tchattions first-person imperfect indicative
- tchattiez imperfect indicative plural
- tchattaient imperfect indicative plural
- tchattai first-person historic indicative
- tchattas historic indicative past
- tchatta historic indicative past
- tchattâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tchatter?
- /tʃa.te/
- \tʃa.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tchatter in French?
tchatter appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).